Chicago saw the fewest homicides in a single year in 2025 in six decades, according to data released by the Chicago Police ...

CHICAGO — Preliminary numbers show Chicago finished the year with the lowest number of murders in 60 years. There were 416 murders in 2025, which is down nearly half of the pandemic peak of 805 in ...

CHICAGO — With one month left in the year, Chicago is on track to have the lowest number of annual murders in more than a decade. Newly released crime numbers show 390 people were murdered through the ...

A new study shows Chicago’s crime decline is part of a national trend that’s driving murders, carjackings and sexual assaults below pre-pandemic levels. The report from the Council on Criminal Justice ...

Overall crime continued to drop as the number of murders in Chicago decreased from 587 in 2024 to 416 last year, when scores of federal immigration agents flooded the city and President Trump ...

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